Hi, Kelk.
The only tool WinXP offers for resizing a partition (as opposed to creating
and deleting partitions) is DiskPart.exe, which you can enter from a "DOS"
window. But it has so many gotchas that it must be used with great care.
Search Help and Support for "extend" - and don't stop reading after the
first screen! Then open a "DOS" window and type Disk to enter that shell.
(Type Exit to return to the Command Prompt.) In the shell, Dir will get you
a list of nearly 2 dozen functions. (Note that Disk.exe is NOT the same as
the more-limited Disk command in the Recovery Console.)
The main gotcha in your case is that it won't work on the System Partition
or Boot Volume - and that's what your 20 GB partition is. You'll need to
physically remove your HD and add it temporarily as a secondary drive in
another WinXP computer, where that partition will be "just another
partition" to that copy of WinXP. Run Disk /extend there, and then move the
HD back home. But first you'll have to delete the 60 GB partition so that
there will be nothing but unallocated space following the 20 GB partition;
even if it is "unused", space within a partition is still allocated to that
partition and not available to disk /extend.
If this is not a feasible solution in your case, you'll need third-party
software, such as Partition Magic or BootItNG. Or the old faithful:
backup; repartition; reformat; restore.
RC
